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Lance Corporal RONALD ARTHUR PURCHASE

Service Number: 4977575
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

2/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 26 May 1940

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OIGNIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Row B. Grave 9.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Arthur and Winifred Constance Purchase, of North Bersted, Bognor Regis, Sussex.
  • Personal Inscription A SILENT THOUGHT, A SECRET TEAR, KEEP HIS MEMORY EVER DEAR
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